I've recently installed gentoo on my machine and I'm having a very similar problem to what is described here. I was able to connect during the install with the CD, but afterwards the network simply would not connect. I am using a static ip and have set the name server, ip, subnet mask, and default gateway up correctly, but still no connection.

I don't get an error message during startup I just get destination host unreachable if I ping another computer on my network and unknown host if I ping google.

I've looked through all the instructions in this thread and followed them but I still have the same problem. Computer spec is as follows:

Okay, now we're getting somewhere, mrpotatohead! lspci doesn't work on your installation because you don't have the sys-apps/pciutils package installed yet. Which of course you can't do until we get your ethernet card working! Fortunately, we don't need lspci to get it working. It's just a handy tool to have.

Things to do as root:

1)

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cd /usr/src/linux

2)

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make menuconfig

3) Go to:
Device Drivers
--->Networking support

4) Make sure [ ]Networking support (at the top) is enabled!

5) Go to:
--->Networking options

6) Here, I would go through each item and either compile it into the kernel (*) or as a module (M) if the help recommends it. Usually it will say something like, "Say 'Y' for now," or "Say 'Y' here unless you know what you are doing." As a cheat sheet, you can peek at a screenie of my own network config, but you'll be much better off in the long run if you read through things yourself. Especially since I have some stuff selected that isn't essential to get networking up and running.

Hi! I just installed gentoo through the great installation guide on this webbsite, I used debian before but not much, so Im not that experienced with linux.
When I installed gentoo and rebooted the system the kernel couldnt find my network card.

I guess I choosed wrong network driver when I configured the kernel but, I have tried some of them now with the same result, can someone help me get the right driver.
My comp is a HP omnibook XE3, I searched on google for what drivers I should choose but I still get the same result.

Since posting the output of lspci would be difficult becuase you are not on the internet. Another easy way to find out which driver to use is to boot to the gentoo livecd and once booted do a lsmod. You will be able it find out which driver gentoo choose for you to during the install and then boot back into you new install and modprobe that driver or add it to /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file.

I booted the livecd again and did lspci, I found out that my ethernet adapter is a Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet adapter.
Cant find anything similiar to that in /usr/src/linux "make menuconfig"

Boot the livecd and look at the output of lsmod too. That will show you a list of modules the kernel loaded. The driver for the network card should be among them. I think you need the tulip driver._________________Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved. Help answer the unanswered

this message appears when i boot up gentoo linux
after login into the system, i can manually configure the network using dhcpcd and ifconfig -a and it seems work fine
but each time i boot up gentoo linux, i have to do the samething manually

and the complete message when i start # /etc/init.d/netmount start are here:

Code:

# /etc/init.d/netmount start
* Starting eth0
* adsl does not support the required function provides
* apipa does not support the required function check_installed
* arping does not support the required function provides
* bonding does not support the required function provides
* bridge does not support the required function provides
* dhclient does not support the required function provides
* dhcpcd does not support the required function provides
* essidnet does not support the required function check_installed
* ifconfig does not support the required function provides
* ifplugd does not support the required function provides
* ipppd does not support the required function provides
* iproute2 does not support the required function provides
* iptunnel does not support the required function check_installed
* iwconfig does not support the required function provides
* macchanger does not support the required function check_installed
* macnet does not support the required function check_installed
* netplugd does not support the required function provides
* pppd does not support the required function provides
* pump does not support the required function provides
* rename does not support the required function check_installed
* system does not support the required function check_installed
* tuntap does not support the required function provides
* udhcpc does not support the required function provides
* vlan does not support the required function provides
* wpa_supplicant does not support the required function provides
* no interface module has been loaded
* ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
* "netmount" was not started.

I have a wireless lan card installed using ndiswrapper, which I think is working (using iwconfig shows the card), and I have tried to set it up using wireless tools for a WEP network, but at boot-time I get the errors:

Hi
I have searched for any solution of my problem but i coud'nt find anything helpfull. The thing is that i can't connect to LAN via DHCP. The problem appeared after i've installed gentoo-2005-r1 and updated. Before that i had an older gentoo version and it worked perfect, no network problems. Kernel is configured properly, driver for network card is b44, compiled in, tried also as module but didn't work. Ifconfig -a shows eth0 and lo. I have emerged dhcpcd, tried also dhclient but without any success. When i run from live-cd DHCP works without any problems. I've read this topic https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-411479-highlight-dhcp.html and decided to re-emerge to bash-3.0-r14, but this also did'nt help. Emerging of baselayout did'nt help. I know that i'm not the only one guy that has that problem, someone on #gentoo channel told me about exactly the same. In /etc/conf.d/net i've added 'config_eth0=( "dhcp")' to be absolutely sure that /etc/init.d/net.eth0 is starting DHCP. If anyone has the answer please share with us. Thank you.

First theory:
I have searched various threads, one of which implied the problem was caused by onboard firewire taking eth0. I thought this may be my problem, but my board has no onboard firewire! However, doing a dmesg shows:

Code:

IEEE1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

What is this if I have no firewire? Is it SATA support related? Could this be the cause of my network problem? How do I stop it from initializing if it is the cause?

Second theory:
Which driver do I actually need? I can find nothing in kernel config for my card (looked under e100, e1000 and e10000)?
Currently, my kernel config has

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Realtek RTL-8129 module

and

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Use PIO instead of MMIO

module selected under network device drivers. I do not consciously recall selecting this when configing my kernel, are these defaults? I may have assumed they were auto-detected from my hardware since many other things (like SATA support) were auto-selected when I got into kernel config time.

Network worked when booting from the livecd (once I called net-setup) so I know there is some driver out there that worked. Entering lsmod when booted from livecd lists a bunch of stuff, none of which was obviously a network driver (however many of the items are cryptically named).

The only driver under /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net is s2io. Is this the Realtek driver selected in kernel config?

I am obviously a little lost here, but I feel so close to having my system up and running. I thought LVM on SATA was going to be my pain but it all seems good. Any help would be truly appreciated.

I have a similar problem with my new Gentoo install. I think it's a problem with the kernel modules.
On boot, I get eth0 device not found or something similar. When I run ifconfig all I see is lo and it's information. Not eth0.

I have an nVidia nForce2 Ethernet Controller, what modules are required for this?
Or is there another solution to this?

So, first thought was, lets comple both modules in to the kernel, so I did. But no eth0 showed up, and I was kind of lost. So I tried some other different settings, and there were no usual problems like copying to an unmounted /boot or copying to some other file, I have double checked such things thrice. But to no avail.
So I tried compiling them as modules. And then later adding them to the modules.autoload.d.

Booted up the system (not the livecd). Nothing as usual.
lsmod lists both modules.

So I thought, must be something else with with the kernel then so I decided to use genkernel. Genereated a new kernel, set up grub for the new target. Booted the system with the new configuration.

Still nothing.

lsmod returns similar results as it did on the livecd (excatly the same I would say).

I've had nearly exactly the same problem recently. I left my /etc/conf.d/net completely blank (i'm on wired DHCP). Have you loaded the/a module for your NIC? I don't remember how I did it, something with checking the kernel, but it wansn't all that hard. then obviously modprobe module and dhcpcd.

When you run dhcpcd do you get something like this?

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# dhcpcd
*MAC Address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
*running dhcpcd... [!!]

I've had the same problem for a while. My linux junkie friend came over yesterday and did exactly that. Checked the kernel for the NIC module, loaded the module, ran dhcpcd, network worked.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I don't believe that loading the NIC's module is mentioned in the manual...I'll check that right quick._________________Sysadmin by trade, geek by choice

# /etc/init.d/netmount start
* Starting eth0
* adsl does not support the required function provides
* apipa does not support the required function check_installed
* arping does not support the required function provides
* bonding does not support the required function provides
* bridge does not support the required function provides
* dhclient does not support the required function provides
* dhcpcd does not support the required function provides
* essidnet does not support the required function check_installed
* ifconfig does not support the required function provides
* ifplugd does not support the required function provides
* ipppd does not support the required function provides
* iproute2 does not support the required function provides
* iptunnel does not support the required function check_installed
* iwconfig does not support the required function provides
* macchanger does not support the required function check_installed
* macnet does not support the required function check_installed
* netplugd does not support the required function provides
* pppd does not support the required function provides
* pump does not support the required function provides
* rename does not support the required function check_installed
* system does not support the required function check_installed
* tuntap does not support the required function provides
* udhcpc does not support the required function provides
* vlan does not support the required function provides
* wpa_supplicant does not support the required function provides
* no interface module has been loaded
* ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
* "netmount" was not started.

Everything was working fine till i emerged world and rebooted the system.I didn`t see a selution.